<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">Apologies for the last-minute announcement:<div><br></div><div><b>Internationalizing Korean Popular music Research and Exploring Directions for Its Further Development</b></div><div><br></div><div>10am-5pm KST | 1-8am GMT, Friday August 7, 2026</div><div><br></div><div>The Academy of Korean Studies, B107 and on Zoom (hybrid)</div><div><a href="https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83253847631?pwd=iSQvavFjKZtURiSLiHElDw4pKKXGhU.1" target="_blank">https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83253847631?pwd=iSQvavFjKZtURiSLiHElDw4pKKXGhU.1</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Opening Remarks</b>: Keewoong Lee (Sungkonghoe University)</div><div><br></div><div><b>Session 1 </b>(10:10-11:20 KST) Chair: Pil Ho Kim (Ohio State University)</div><div>
<p>Donna Kwon (University of Kentucky) "Navigating Global Sonic Imaginaries In K-Pop: Auto-Tune, Vocoder, and Singing the Posthuman in the Music of ATEEZ\u201d</p>
<p>Peter Moody (Stony Brook University) "Reformed Folk, Reinvigorated: North Korean National Music in the 21st Century\u201c</p><p>Sunhong Kim (University of Michigan) "Popularizing Transhistorical Arirang: From Early Korean Sojourners\u2019 Ararang in 1896 to BTS's Arirang"</p><p><b>Session 2</b> (11:30-12:40 KST) Chair: Hyunseok Kwon (Hanyang University)</p><p>Ethan Waddell (University of Colorado) \u201cThe Dialectic of Control and Memory: On Writing the Musical Past in Post-liberation Korea\u201d</p><p>Susan Hwang (UC Santa Barbara) \u201cFrom Romance to Resistance: Kim Min-ki and the Making of Student Protest Culture\u201d</p><p>Janghee Son (Ritsumeikan University) "'\uc5f0\ub77d\uc120\uc740 \ub5a0\ub09c\ub2e4(\uc5f0\ub77d\uc120\uc758 \ub178\ub798)'\uac00 \ub178\uc815\uc2dc\ud0a8 \uc804\ud6c4 \uc77c\ubcf8 \uc758 \uae30\uc5b5\uc758 \uade0\uc5f4" Fissures in Postwar Japanese Memory Revealed by the Song 'The Ferry Departs'</p><p><b>Session 3</b> (14:00-15:30 KST) Chair: Il-dong Cho (AKS)</p>
<p>CedarBough Saeji (Pusan National University) \u201cNew Sounds in an Old Place: Remaking the Meaning of Korean Palaces through K-pop\u201d</p>
<p>Jeonghwan Shin (Sungkyunkwan University) \u201c1960\ub144\ub300 \uc774\ud6c4 \ud55c\uad6d \ub300\uc911\uc74c\uc545 \uc7a1\uc9c0\uc640 \ub300\uc911\uc74c\uc545\ub860\uc758 \ud5a5\ubc29: \ub2f4\ub860\uc801 \uc7ac\uad6c\uc131\uacfc \uc774\ub860\uc758 \uac31\uc2e0\uc744 \uc704\ud558\uc5ec\u201d Korean Popular Music Magazines and the Trajectory of Popular Music Discourse since the 1960s: Toward Discursive Reconstruction and Theoretical Renewal</p>
<p>Jonghyun Park (Korea World Music Center) "\uc18c\ub9ac, \uacf5\uac04, \uc5f0\ud589, \ud639\uc740 \uc0ac\ub78c\uc73c\ub85c\uc11c "7080": \uc7a5\ub974 \uae30\ud638\uc758 \uc0ac(\u53f2)\uc801 \uc811\uadfc\u201c '7080' as a Genre-sign of Space, Sound, Performance, and People: An Anthropological Approach</p>
<p>Ildong Cho (AKS) \u201c1980\ub144\ub300 \ud2b8\ub85c\ud2b8, \uc804\uc790\uc545\uae30, \uce74\uc138\ud2b8\ud14c\uc774\ud504, \uadf8\ub9ac\uace0 \uacbd\ubd80 \uace0\uc18d\ub3c4\ub85c: \uae30\uc220-\ubb38\ud654-\uc0b0\uc5c5\uc758 \uc5bd\ud798\u201d Trot, Electronic Instruments, Cassette Tapes, and the Gyeongbu Expressway: Changes in Technoculture and Social Infrastructure, and Their Impact on Korean Popular Music Genres, Industry, and Labor</p><p><b>General Discussion</b> (15:40-17:00 KST)</p><p><br></p></div>
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